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The Israel Forever Foundation Helping the World Celebrate and Strengthen the Personal Connection to Israel Teaching Hatred: Patterns of Indoctrination of Logical Antisemitism Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief 1 June 2020 Prepared by: Dr. Elana Yael Heideman Executive Director, The Israel Forever Foundation, PhD in Holocaust Studies, Boston University University Professor Program, Chaired by Professor Elie Wiesel israelforever.org/about/team/elana_heideman/ Joseph H. Tipograph, Esq. Heideman, Nudelman & Kalik, PC hnklaw.com The Israel Forever Foundation 1146 19th Street, NW, Washington DC 20036 (202) 280-7668 www.israelforever.org © 2020 The Israel Forever Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Helping the World Celebrate and Strengthen the Personal Connection to Israel The Israel Forever Foundation (IFF) wishes to thank the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief for his work towards eliminating intolerance and discrimination and the achievement of sustainable development goal 16.1 In this report, IFF aims to document patterns over the past century of indoctrinating students to create a logic to Antisemitism that otherwise does not exist, to illustrate how the extraordinary lethal communal violence against the Jewish people—specifically the Holocaust and the Second Intifada—have been fueled by propaganda-laced miseducation, connected to discriminatory boycott practices, and characterized by false or incomplete portrayals of Jewish, Israeli and Zionist history and identity. IFF further aims to demonstrate how similar patterns of logical antisemitic indoctrination continue to emerge throughout the world, including in the Middle East, the United States, and Europe. The Special Rapporteur highlighted this issue in his 20 September 2019 report, citing Antisemitic expressions in Saudi textbooks2 and hostility to Jews on college campuses in North America and Western Europe.3 Not coincidentally, rates of Antisemitism around the world are at epidemic proportions: in 2014 the ADL concluded more than one in four people worldwide hold Antisemitic beliefs, though 70% of those who do have never met a Jewish person.4 We humbly request the Special Rapporteur acknowledge that the Antisemitism spreading today in schools around the world is part of a larger pattern, as set forth in this report. We seek recognition that education of hate—like current demonization of Israel on campus today—only leads to senseless acts of hate. Educational institutions that encourage students to perform acts of violence must be held accountable. When the incitement and misinformation is strong enough to motivate a student to commit murder, administrative, civil, and criminal sanctions should be considered. Lastly, we request that the Special Rapporteur acknowledge, in writing, the role that the United Nations itself plays in fostering logical Antisemitism around the world. Education in Nazi Germany From its very onset, the growth of the Nazi ideology was reliant on addressing what it called “the Jewish problem” in Germany with logical, rational antisemitism, as outlined by Hitler in his letter of September 1919: “An antisemitism based on reason. must lead to systematic legal combating and elimination of the privileges of the Jews, that which distinguishes the Jews from 1 “to significantly reduce violence, abuse and exploitation; to promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development; to promote rule of law and equal access to justice, strengthen transparency and accountability of institutions; and to broaden and strengthen participation without discrimination on any grounds.” 2 Shaheed report, para.24; see https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/teaching-hate-and-violence 3 Shaheed report, para.23. 4 https://www.adl.org/what-we-do/anti-semitism/anti-semitism-globally. The Israel Forever Foundation 1146 19th Street, NW, Washington DC 20036 (202) 280-7668 www.israelforever.org © 2020 The Israel Forever Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Helping the World Celebrate and Strengthen the Personal Connection to Israel the other aliens who live among us (an Aliens Law). The ultimate objective [must] be the irrevocable removal of the Jews.”5 This logic, built on a rewriting of history explained as curing Jewish manipulations of media and government, strategically infiltrated public society through every medium and form. Whether visual or literary, the hatred of Jews inserted itself into every realm of German culture.6 What was depicted in films and imagery was echoed in the words of teachers, as “from the 1920s onward, the Nazi Party targeted German youth and educators as especially important audiences for its propaganda messages.”7 Through the classroom and extracurricular activities, the Nazis indoctrinated “millions of German children into the state’s ideology,” casting the party as “a dynamic, disciplined, forward-looking, and hopeful movement.”8 German boys would join the Hitler Youth program at age 13, graduate at age 18, and then join the party, state labour service or the armed forces.9 By 1935, the Hitler Youth included almost 60% of German boys and by 1936 the program had 5.4 million members.10 What started as a discriminatory boycott of Jewish goods eventually became socially accepted murder, as those indoctrinated with the Antisemitic Nazi narrative became some of the regime’s most violent henchmen. One such alumnus, Reinhold Hanning, was charged as an accessory to murder in the deaths of 170,000 people during his 18-month stint as a guard at Auschwitz.11 Trained to believe themselves racially superior, imbued with a national destiny that overrode any other moral or ethical argument, ordinary citizens became the arm of execution of a theory of hatred that ultimately resulted in the death of around 6 million Jewish people along with millions of other innocent victims. 5 Eberhard Jäckel (ed.), Hitler. Sämtliche Aufzeichnungen 1905-1924. (Stuttgart, 1980), pp. 88-90. Translated by Richard S. Levy available at https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-s-first-anti-semitic-writing 6 https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda 7 https://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/EM/pdf/State%20of%20Deception%20The%20Power%20of%20Nazi %20Propaganda.pdf 8 https://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/EM/pdf/State%20of%20Deception%20The%20Power%20of%20Nazi %20Propaganda.pdf 9 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hitler-Youth 10 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hitler-Youth 11 https://time.com/nazi-trials/ The Israel Forever Foundation 1146 19th Street, NW, Washington DC 20036 (202) 280-7668 www.israelforever.org © 2020 The Israel Forever Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Helping the World Celebrate and Strengthen the Personal Connection to Israel Hate in the Palestinian Educational System In the final years of the Holocaust, as it became apparent that the efforts to re-establish the Jewish homeland and to create a Jewish state in the ancestral areas identified for that purpose by the League of Nations and included in the British Mandate of Palestine would endure, the surrounding newly established Arab states convened to form the Arab League. Predominantly featured on the agenda was the shared goal of preventing the Zionist enterprise through a boycott.12 From early on, the Arab League resolved to create propaganda “to convince the Arab peoples of the necessity of boycotting Zionist goods, so that the boycott becomes the firm creed of every Arab which he may most enthusiastically preach to all and which he may defend faithfully and genuinely.”13 This discriminatory anti-normalization propaganda cartel is responsible for much of the Antisemitic demonization of Israel that exists around the world today.14 After the 1967 Six Day War, Israeli officials found that Jordan and Egypt had introduced textbooks and curricula into the West Bank and Gaza that were hostile to Israel and Antisemitic.15 UNESCO was drawn in to help mediate with respect to UNRWA schools, and Israel conducted its own review.16 Utilizing similar logic employed by the Nazis, Arab propaganda in schools and elsewhere painted the Jew as the animal-like,17 all-powerful controller of media and governments, usurper of land and human rights, and devoid of morals and ethics.18 The issue of education became critically important following the Oslo Accords’ creation of the Palestinian Authority, which assumed control over education in certain territories in 1994 and was expected to help further the ongoing efforts towards peace. 12 Arab League Res. 16, session 2, at 6 (December 2, 1945), 6, translated in Muhammad Khalil, The Arab States and the Arab League: A Documentary Record, vol. I, Constitutional Developments (Beirut: Khayats, 1962), https://archive.org/stream/arabstatesandthe012664mbp/arabstatesandthe012664mbp_djvu.txt. The translated text of the Arab League Boycott resolutions (initially written in Arabic) was included in Khalil’s book, which was reviewed in Middle East Journal 19, no. 3 (summer 1965) by the Middle East Institute, one of the oldest and most credible Washington, DC-based, nonpartisan think-tanks that focus exclusively on the Middle East. 13 Arab League Res. 70, session 4, June 12, 1946, 18–19, translated in Muhammad Khalil, The Arab States and the Arab League, 162–63, https://archive.org/stream/arabstatesandthe012664mbp/arabstatesandthe012664mbp_djvu.txt. 14 David May, War by Other Means: A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (Jan. 20, 2020) https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/1/20/war-by-other-means 15 https://www.impact-se.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CMIP-PA.pdf 16 https://www.impact-se.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CMIP-PA.pdf 17 https://www.memri.org/reports/arab-and-islamic-antisemitism (casting Jews as descendants of apes and pigs); see also; https://haitiholocaustsurvivors.wordpress.com/anti-semitism/yale-anti-semitism-conference-papers/muslim- demonization-of-jews-as-pigs-and-apes-theological-roots-and-contemporary-implications-by-neil-kressel/ 18 https://www.impact-se.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CMIP-PA.pdf The Israel Forever Foundation 1146 19th Street, NW, Washington DC 20036 (202) 280-7668 www.israelforever.org © 2020 The Israel Forever Foundation.
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